On September 27th, 2019, Eddie Azari was pulled over for a traffic stop in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, PA. He had a knife in his hand when he was shot and killed by one of the responding officers.
00:02:58.380The organization known as Burn, Loot, Murder has now been activated for a trial run ahead of 2024.
00:03:07.020They don't care what actually happened in this police officer-involved shooting in Philadelphia.
00:03:13.840But we do because we care about facts around here on Human Events and we're going to talk about it.
00:03:18.380So I want to play for you in just one second the body cam of the officer-involved shooting.
00:03:25.160Because you had an individual, all right, Eddie Azari.
00:03:29.940And Eddie Azari was driving his car the wrong way down through the streets of Kensington, was slamming through the streets, was chased by officers.
00:08:57.320And the truth is that I really am a freedom fighter.
00:09:00.760And one of the things that I've kind of learned in this fight for freedom is that I have to remember that I'm fighting for everybody's freedom here.
00:09:07.340Even the people that hate me, even the people that hate this country, even some of the journalists that don't write friendly pieces about me.
00:11:08.560I guess really my biggest mistake is not being a liberal Democrat and rioting during the summer of 2020 or rioting during Trump's inauguration or rioting whenever the Democrats tell me to and taking their bail funds.
00:11:18.120I guess that's my biggest mistake is being a peaceful First Amendment activist no matter what the date is.
00:11:23.620And apparently it doesn't even matter about January 6th because in the government sentencing memo, they quote me.
00:11:29.460In fact, most of the 90 – I'd say 90 percent of the 30-page memo are quotes not even dealing with January 6th, not even things I said or did on January 6th.
00:11:39.200It's things that I said on my radio show, on my talk show at Infowars.
00:11:43.760So they listen to everything I do, and then they use that against me to sentence me to prison.
00:11:48.540So on a personal level, obviously, I don't want to go to jail.
00:13:17.700And now I have my heart breaking that future Americans, younger generation Americans, are going to have to be afraid of their government that what they might say land them in jail.
00:13:29.140So that's kind of the two levels of the shock and awe and really heartbreaking horror that come with my sentencing.
00:13:36.060You know, I actually did my high school morning news as well.
00:13:41.500I was from freshman year all the way through, did it every single day.
00:13:45.880And you look at the situation and it does set, I guess, a different precedent because you mentioned about the future of the American people and American children.
00:14:41.460Well, I think the drowning person's analogy is a good example, or as you're talking about it, going into the pit.
00:14:49.720Everybody knows that sometimes there's a drowning victim that's just going crazy and they're flailing and they're flopping.
00:14:55.240And if you're not trained on how to save them, they can end up drowning you as well.
00:15:00.160And so there's a little bit of that going on because there's no doubt the awakening, the awareness level of the American people as far as the corruption we're dealing with,
00:15:07.880the corruption, the different levels of it, the different avenues of it that come from our government, our media is at an all time high.
00:15:15.060But I think that it goes both ways, even though they are, I would say, in many ways, a collapsing regime.
00:15:20.660I think that we see that with some of the struggle they have to have these never ending, eternally funded wars from the past like they want to see in Ukraine.
00:15:29.860There's a lot more resistance to that now.
00:15:32.040But you also see that they are relenting as far as they're going to do everything they can to destroy their opposition.
00:15:40.880So whether it's me or whether it's Donald Trump or whether it's Alex Jones or whether it's anybody else,
00:15:46.800they're going to try to use the will and the power that they have in their perhaps collapsing regime days to completely destroy any dissidents and completely destroy any opposition.
00:15:58.480So you could argue, does that show that they're weak? Does that show that they're powerful?
00:16:02.940I think maybe it shows both. But we see this trend of the Roman Empire right now.
00:16:07.720Well, why do we see that? Because I think people are starting to recognize that, you know, how did the Roman Empire fall?
00:16:13.100Well, we're kind of witnessing the same thing now with what might be called the American Empire falling.
00:16:20.160Well, I think it's exactly right. And people have pointed out mass migration, multiculturalism,
00:16:24.480just a complete relaxation on the standards of basic human capital.
00:16:30.180Right. We're seeing this first in our government.
00:16:33.420But keep in mind, this is almost on every institution.
00:16:36.320The competence crisis saying that everything needs to be equal.
00:16:40.200We need to be egalitarian. We need to support people who can't, you know, aren't good enough or smart enough.
00:16:47.020But we need to give them the job anyway. You know, we need to make things equitable.
00:16:50.660Anyone can fly an airplane. Anyone can be a surgeon. Anyone can be a brain doctor.
00:16:56.920No, no, actually, I don't think so. And this is why, by the way, that even basic services are now failing everywhere around the country.
00:17:05.120It's because these insane ideologies, this degeneracy and this decline has seeped into everything.
00:17:12.940We just see it in the government level first. That's why they've lost complete control of basically what they had before was soft power.
00:17:21.100And they lost soft power because of programs like Infowars, like Human Events, like every other independent media that's out there.
00:17:29.920Tucker Carlson going out and speaking truth to power.
00:17:33.880So after they lost that, what do they have left? Hard power.
00:17:37.800The power to lock up dissidents, the power to throw people in gulags.
00:17:41.180And if you don't think gulags are coming, we've got Owen Schroyer on right now.
00:17:45.140They're sending him to one. Last minute for this segment, Owen.
00:17:49.420Well, again, I think that when they look at my case, I don't know if they really expected the backlash.
00:17:55.860And I'm not sure if that's because they assume that because I'm censored on all the social media platforms
00:18:01.200or all the Infowars programs are censored everywhere that they wouldn't get the public backlash.
00:18:05.580And there are still people in media that are afraid to touch anything, Infowars.
00:18:10.440There are still people in media that are afraid to touch anything, Owen Schroyer.
00:18:14.060But the response to my case has been overwhelming.
00:18:19.180And quite frankly, and, you know, this could be entirely wrong, and maybe you could offer your opinion on this, too.
00:18:25.700I think that they actually ended up charging Ray Epps because of the backlash they got with charging me.
00:18:31.740I mean, they could have charged Ray Epps forever ago.
00:18:33.760They're going to charge Ray Epps the day they put him on the FBI's wanted list.
00:18:37.520Hold that thought. We'll be right back.
00:18:39.540Next segment coming up, Owen Schroyer, Ray Epps.
00:18:42.360We're going to get into all of it after the break.
00:18:45.880Today, you know, they talk about influencers.
00:18:48.340These are influencers, and they're friends of mine.
00:19:09.900And I got to even say that the backlash to the Owen Schroyer sentencing and the fact that the DOJ brought up his statements on his radio show, on his talk show, at his sentencing.
00:19:23.840Things that had nothing to do with January 6th on the ground, activity, didn't even go into the Capitol.
00:19:36.760They brought up his opinions, his political opinions that are protected under the First Amendment at his sentencing and essentially used this to sway the judge.
00:20:13.060Right. Vivek, though, came out full on said that he would pardon you immediately, which I have to say that he's been absolutely fantastic on that when it comes to you.
00:20:21.960And really, every all of the other Jan 6 detainees, some of which have been held in absolute horrific.
00:20:29.080The conditions that these people are being held in are far worse than anything that was done at Guantanamo.
00:20:35.180Anything that was done at Guantanamo Bay.
00:20:37.260Those guys are taking care of, forward care of.
00:20:38.940They get, you know, three hots and a cot.
00:20:40.620They get they get their meals are all full Islamic compliant.
00:20:45.060They're able to pray five times a day.
00:20:46.960They got a soccer field built for them.
00:20:48.720And believe me, I've been to Guantanamo and trust me, those guys are not being treated as well as are being far better than people in the D.C.
00:20:56.400Gulag. But your theory of the case is that this indictment, which comes down on Ray Epps after we're nearly nearly three years after January 6th.
00:21:10.120Finally, the one guy who we know demonstrably is on tape actually inciting a riot.
00:21:16.660Right. Directly telling people to go into the Capitol.
00:21:20.460He's finally indicted after all of this defense of Ray Epps that was done by the January 6th committee, by The New York Times.
00:21:29.300Why do you think that they did this right after your sentencing?
00:21:36.140Well, again, and maybe it's some narcissism here.
00:21:39.140I'm open to criticism, but I can't help but think that they charged Ray Epps because of the backlash of charging and sentencing Owen Schroyer.
00:21:48.520Because I do think it went a lot bigger than they expected.
00:21:52.520And maybe they didn't expect me to take the fangs out after the sentencing because and I don't know if you want me to go into the weeds of the details of my case, but but I'll put it very simply.
00:22:03.680I was operating in complete good faith and plenty of criticism from people.
00:22:08.800Fair enough, saying, well, why would you operate in good faith with the government?
00:22:11.500Why would you cooperate with the government?
00:22:12.800Because I wanted to prove my innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:22:16.460I turned over two cell phones, which they still possess.
00:22:19.240I responded to every electronic data request.
00:22:22.060I sat down for question and answer sessions with the FBI.
00:22:36.240But maybe they thought I was soft because of that cooperation,
00:22:39.720even though I just wanted to act in good faith, expecting that the U.S. government would act in good faith in responding to our good faith.
00:22:46.800It was our understanding that they were not going to push for incarceration, given my above and beyond good behavior on probation and cooperating with their investigation.
00:23:07.080Then I go ahead and do a press conference afterwards with my attorney and address all the wrongdoings by the U.S. government, in our view, in the proceedings and in the sentencing.
00:23:16.600But I can't help but believe that they probably thought that, oh, we'll sentence Owen Schroyer.
00:23:33.840And so, I mean, everybody knows that, gee, you're going after Owen Schroyer.
00:23:38.520I mean, I'm not going to act like I'm some sort of a choir boy or a Boy Scout.
00:23:41.460But, I mean, essentially, that's what they're doing here is going after the Boy Scout, going after the quiet boy, going after the All-American that everybody loves.
00:23:48.780And so, I think it got a lot more backlash than they anticipated, whether it was Vivek Ramaswamy or Tim Poole making this a big story or you having me on my show or me on your show or maybe Elon Musk responding to it.
00:24:03.500And they're saying, gee, they're sentencing Schroyer to two months in jail when on January 6th it's in their sentencing memo.
00:24:10.900He said, we're here to peacefully have our voices heard.
00:24:13.260And they even quote in the sentencing memo say we were there to de-escalate the situation.
00:24:18.300Obviously, the videos of Alex Jones on the bullhorn saying don't go in the Capitol, don't go into the Capitol, us trying to work with law enforcement to stop the entire thing.
00:24:26.300By the way, the time we arrived, we were there hours after there was any breach.
00:24:30.240So, I think it was such an egregious thing that got so much media attention that, yes, they are charging a journalist.
00:24:36.660Yes, they are criminalizing speech that it was like, okay, well, we've got Ray Epps doing much worse than Owen Schroyer ever did.
00:24:44.260We've got to do something about this now.
00:24:52.720But let me just say, there are multiple levels of egregious abuses of power and criminalization of free speech in my case.
00:25:02.560It's actually a stunning thing when you read the 30-page sentencing memo that the four sections, there are four different sections in the memo convincing this judge I need to go to jail.
00:25:24.040And if this has to go to the Supreme Court, Jack, then maybe that's where this belongs because we believe this is going to be one of the most important precedent-setting First Amendment cases in modern American history and maybe even in U.S. history.
00:25:37.100Look, Owen, I think you're right, actually.
00:25:41.060This theory and, you know, I had seen those two events happen in succession, but, you know, it's so far removed that I didn't look at it.
00:25:53.000I think that they wanted to shift the attention away from you, right, to put all of it back on Ray Epps.
00:25:59.840And at the same time, it gives them the ability to turn back.
00:26:03.400And you're seeing this happen now where they're using this Ray Epps indictment.
00:26:06.020And it's a slap on the wrist to go after Julie Kelly and Darren Beattie and Tucker Carlson and really anyone who asked questions, serious questions, about the things, again, that we have Ray Epps on video saying and doing.
00:26:23.420And the real question, of course, is always this, where did Ray Epps get the idea to say and do all those things?
00:26:30.380Was there anyone that Ray Epps was talking to that was – and they're screaming, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed, on January 5th, the night before.
00:26:40.200I was there in Freedom Square that night, Owen, and I remember, you know, being on, like, a different end of the square and hearing people yelling, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed, fed.
00:26:51.060I couldn't tell what was going on. And I do remember seeing a guy in, like, a long – I thought it was a raincoat, right, this long, gray, tan kind of coat.
00:27:01.280I thought it was a raincoat. But then, you know, looking back, we've all seen those videos of Ray Epps.
00:27:05.560So I'm standing on the other – it's packed, right, jam-packed that night.
00:27:08.180And it was Ray Epps. They're screaming, fed, at him.
00:27:10.380And the reason is because it sounds – that sounds like something a fed would say.
00:27:14.800And so they're using this to pull away information and attention on you because they realized that by doing this to you,
00:27:24.760what they did was essentially they made you a sort of political martyr.
00:27:29.940And a political martyr in the sense that you are a person who legitimately didn't do anything wrong
00:27:36.640other than exercise your First Amendment right to protest for a regress of grievances,
00:27:43.640to go to the Capitol and have your voice heard, right?
00:27:48.560We never saw this against the, you know, BLM.
00:27:52.160You know, oh, and what you really should have done, what you should have done,
00:27:54.880is put on a black mask and firebomb the Austin police station, their police department,
00:28:00.320because then you'd probably be getting, I don't know, some kind of award right now.
00:28:03.660Well, and, of course, we're being facetious.
00:28:07.220You or I would never call for violent activity or criminal activity we've never had,
00:28:10.920but is it that really the ultimate juxtaposition?
00:28:14.580And, you know, I hear people that decry whataboutism,
00:28:17.580but I actually completely promote whataboutism because you have no justice without whataboutism.
00:28:23.780I mean, that is how you measure justice is you take two things and you see if justice is applied equally.
00:30:26.680But, folks, I just want to say when the knock at the door comes, if that knock at the door comes,
00:30:33.440you can only hope that you handle it with the strength, the dignity, the character, and the grace that Owen Schroer has shown and continues to show.
00:30:48.200I'm going to make sure that you get a copy of the Bible while you're in there because we are going to make sure also to do everything we can to pray for you and support you throughout that entire time.
00:32:32.020Like, Owen Troyer is a political prisoner, and we've talked about how this government that we have is continually funding these forever wars all over the place.
00:32:45.140And yet we see this list, and I want to pull it up here.
00:32:52.72028 senators, and these are Republicans, all voting for more funding to Ukraine.
00:33:00.220Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer is with us.
00:33:02.220Tony, why is this so important to the ruling class in America?
00:33:08.020Why are so many Republicans willing to shut down the entire government over funding for a war that doesn't seem to be in our direct national security interests?
00:33:33.660This is nothing of our strategic or national interests are actually jeopardized by this, what I consider a regional conflict.
00:33:41.080What is going on is something that goes back to Obama and probably a little bit before, which is to move us in a direction, and this is not conspiracy theory.
00:33:53.780This is the World Economic Forum and their reinvention of world order and the build back beta.
00:34:02.420The Clintons are lining up to jump in to rebuild Ukraine.
00:34:07.500The whole idea has been from day one is to move Ukraine out from under the Russian sphere of influence and cooperation to the EU and more extensively to the West, to this larger effort to globalize, make us all global citizens.
00:34:25.600And that's why there's so much blood and treasure at stake from those who are trying to push this, such as the Bidens, the Clintons, and the neocons.
00:34:37.380And at this point, I don't see any difference between the neocons and neolibs on this issue.
00:34:42.820I think they're all trying to push towards what Obama was pushing us towards, is this larger effort to essentially subordinate the United States to this idea of global collectivism, the reinvention of capitalism.
00:35:00.160So that's why they're pushing so hard to get us involved and keep us there.
00:35:04.580Well, I think that's a huge part of it.
00:35:05.720We have to point out the deep financial interest.
00:35:08.820So you've got Hillary Clinton reappears on the world stage, and suddenly she's signing a deal with – she's up there with the first lady of Ukraine signing a deal for the Clinton Foundation to come in as the official rebuilding partner of the Ukrainian government.
00:35:26.280It's like it's not even the deep state anymore because now it's in your face.
00:35:31.080But there's another aspect to this, Tony, because we are one year – yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the bombing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
00:35:39.840And we would be remiss to not talk about the deep-seated financial and energy interests that so many of our senators, even Republicans, the 28 Republicans here, are directly tied to because there are so many direct, as I said, financial and energy interests at play here.
00:36:35.680We're talking right now about the fact that they're trying to move everything out of carbon fuels, carbon-based fuels, to this renewable class of things.
00:36:47.580And they're spending enormous amounts of money on this to basically defund farmers, defund agriculture, move people into a position where they have to depend on the grid.
00:36:59.140A grid, a grid which they control, and cars that have computers that they control.
00:37:05.300And again, I don't see how people don't see this sort of thing.
00:37:09.280And there's an immense amount of money going into it.
00:37:11.960Biden just said the other day that he put $10 billion into EVs for purposes of trying to turn our whole economic system of how we drive into this EV dream of theirs.
00:37:27.320And I think at this point, it, again, is part of this larger effort to get people to give up what has actually worked and worked very well.
00:37:48.460And so that's why they're trying to work so hard to do this sort of two-step regarding energy.
00:37:55.460The only other thing I'll say about that real quick is Ukraine does have energy resources that would be able to compete with Russia.
00:38:04.180And I would argue that's one of the reasons they want Ukraine out from under the Russian influence because in 2014 they found immense reserves of oil and gas in the Donbass and Black Sea.
00:38:34.960We talked about it last week how Ukraine is the secret playground of the globalists.
00:38:41.760And we talked about the child trafficking.
00:38:45.160We also had an interview where we talked about the baby factories in Ukraine, the oil, the energy, even the farmland where they're trying to get Monsanto and the GMOs in for total control of this year.
00:38:58.360Because what is Ukraine at the end of the day?
00:39:02.700And if you don't think that there are, Tony, when we're talking about just put all this together, put a number on it for us.
00:39:09.400How much money are we talking about that's on the table here?
00:39:13.540If Trump says we're going to get out, there's no more war, we're going to bounce, and then Russia is able to come in, how much money is actually at play to lose for these interests?
00:39:26.540Well, let's think about what they spent so far, $100 billion, most of that spent right in Washington.
00:39:33.080It goes to U.S. interests and corporations, which make money off it.
00:39:38.460Leader McConnell admitted this the other day in the Senate.
00:39:41.540So right now we're talking, if you just take, Jack, us spending approximately, I think the estimates are about $3 trillion in Afghanistan over 20 years.
00:39:52.360It's got to be more than that by an order of magnitude regarding Ukraine.
00:39:56.540So if it took that much for Afghanistan, which really wasn't much to it to rebuild since there wasn't much there, this you're talking about essentially Ukraine becoming an experiment for the world economic forum and their bill back better.
00:40:52.540They're washing the American tax base out.
00:40:56.260If you think this is about helping the people of Ukraine or helping anyone overseas, just go ask the 120,000 Armenians that just got ethnically cleansed out of Artsakh, whether we actually care about human rights anywhere in the world.
00:41:10.120Tony Schaefer, I know we've got to run.
00:42:08.960Now, Joe Biden, that's why he flew out there and spent, what, like 87 seconds actually talking to the people on the line.
00:42:15.240And, guys, let me know when we're set up to go in, but what you're seeing Trump doing and Trump going there tonight to counter-program the, there is a Republican debate, but I don't know how many people are actually watching.
00:42:29.780I heard Fox is actually slashing their ad rates because it's projected to be such a snoozer, that he has sided with the American workers.
00:42:39.420So, when I talk about the special interest overseas, the special interest to send billions of dollars overseas, whether it's the military-industrial complex, whether it's finance, whether it's agribusiness, whether it's big pharma, whether it's baby factories,
00:42:55.000any of these various interests, pharmaceutical companies that are raking in the dough out of Ukraine, you've got to understand that all of that, at the same time, is underpinned by the U.S. chamber that has these deals with China and the fact that China has unfettered access to American markets.
00:43:13.820This has destroyed American manufacturing, destroyed our industry, destroyed our infrastructure.
00:43:19.420I talk about it how many times you're on the show, the Midwest, the South, it was gutted by design, by these people.
00:43:30.720Because there's so much money involved in it.
00:43:33.740And so, when President Trump goes there as a Republican, it shows you two things.
00:43:39.820Number one, the restructuring of the Republican Party, and the reason that Joe Biden's there, is because the Democrats are terrified of the Rust Belt.
00:43:50.020They know that Trump is the only Republican that has the ability to win the Rust Belt.
00:43:56.840And I'm told that we have Steve Gruber now on the scene to kind of explain it to us just a little bit.